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The second Garfield Night Market was held on September 6, 2013 with more vendors (including 9 Garfield-based vendors), a bigger crowd and more lanterns! Miss it? Take a stroll through the Night Market in the video below, see photos from September’s market on the Facebook page, and come to the October 4th Night Market!

The Garfield Night Market kicked off last Friday night and was a big success. The market had 29 vendors, six of whom were from Garfield, which — though we’ve set it as our goal to have more and more Garfield-based vendors sell at future Night Markets — we were very proud of for our first market. Paper lanterns floated over N. Pacific Avenue and attracted a diverse crowd, including families, to eat food, peruse vendors’ handmade goods, and enjoy a great summer evening in Garfield.

The kind people at The Union Hall Times focused the latest issue of their newsletter on the Garfield Night Market, which the profits from next Monday’s No Menu Monday at Bar Marco (from 5-10 PM!) will support. UHT’s Alaina Webber interviewed cityLAB’s Sara Blumenstein about the Night Market, cityLAB’s 6% Place experiment, and some of Sara’s favorite Pittsburgh things. Read the UHT interview in full here, and our thanks to Alaina and her team for the great coverage highlighting the Garfield Night Market!

Come out next Monday, enjoy some tacos from Pittsburgh Taco Truck, and help get the Garfield Night Market up and running!

All profits from June 24th’s No Menu Monday (which will run from 5-10 PM at Bar Marco) will go towards the Garfield Night Market, which is launching on August 2nd. Your support will help aspiring Garfield food vendors get the licenses and permits they need to jump-start their own businesses—so come enjoy some delicious food and help a new generation of Pittsburgh food entrepreneurs get off the ground!

Cheers from cityLAB, the Garfield Night Market planning committee, and our partners at the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation!

What’s that item in the back of this month’s Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin?
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Please come to our first workshop for Lessons from the 6% Place on April 25th, 2013 at 6:30 PM at Assemble Gallery in Garfield. Read more about our first session, “Freelancing and the Law,” and our series right here.

Have you heard the news? cityLAB and the 6% Place Advisory Committee are organizing a night market in Garfield to begin this summer and we are looking for vendors, volunteers, performers, and sponsors.

Read the article from the April issue of the Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin below and then sign up here if you’re interested in being a part of the Night Market.

cityLAB’s intrepid CEO, Eve Picker, presented at TEDxCMU on Sunday. Her talk, “Cure for the Common City,” focused on the costs of top-down and bottom-up approaches to urban development. This morning’s issue of Carnegie Mellon University’s student paper said:

Picker explained the difference between bottom-up and top-down city design, using Pittsburgh’s CONSOL Energy Center as an example of an expensive, top-down project and the Toonseum in Downtown as an example of a cheaper, bottom-up method for revitalization.

“Imagine a city where 5 million visits are generated by 13,000 small projects — that’s a cure for the common city,” Picker said.”

Join us for a free brown-bag lunch and Curbside Chat on Friday, January 11th, sponsored by cityLAB and Bruno Works.

Charles Marohn of Minnesota-based non-profit Strong Towns has been visiting communities across America with his Curbside Chats. See Charles in Pittsburgh and hear more about:

Why are our cities and towns so short of resources despite decades of robust growth?
Why do we struggle at the local level just to maintain our basic infrastructure?
What do we do now that the economy has changed so dramatically?